"If only she weren't gay," I thought to myself.The closeness caused a predictable reaction which she could not help butnotice."That is so inappropriat... for a girl like you Charlotte."I felt my face turn red and started to apologize, but noticed hergrinning."Actually, I am flattered that I can turn you on" she said "or is itthat you enjoy being a girl?"I was tongue tied, but before I could respond she smiled at me and said"Relax, I was only teasing."She again pulled me close and we danced a bit. Once everyone was in the tent he began.“Tim, you won’t be going out on road watch. As soon as Bobby gets back we are going to prepare for a special operation. Until he returns you will be making a cache of fuel, water, and provisions ready for a deep offensive into enemy territory. The target, gentlemen, is the airbase outside of Dena.”He watched the reactions to this. Smiles appeared on all their faces.Ted continued, “The object is to destroy as many of the bombers there as we can. There is a. “Julia, come here, I want you to meet my wife!” Jody said loudly. They were stuck. Julia didn’t see a way out of the predicament and stood. She started toward their table and stopped at Lily’s arm, she reached down and pulled at Lily’s arm. Lily was in shock and complied on autopilot. Lily turned to see Jody twisted in her chair, and her senior accounts director seated across from her. Margaret didn’t immediately recognize Lily as Liam but Jody worked side by side with him for the last 3 years.. She had her own projects that she was working on, and she did have that co-project with Dr. Anson. Sue and Dr. Anson were given replicators so that they would never run out of the drugs that they were working with.It didn’t take Dad long to come up with some property that we could use. It was well out in the boondocks that were difficult to reach, so we would not be bothered by casual drop-ins by tourists, etc. This was certainly no problem for Jack or me because we could teleport in and out.